The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-03-18
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Some of the business men OF the
town should build mill Of some kind
in this place ard give the Young men en-
pioyment Some or them are so poor that
they cannot take their girls to a concert once
in a year.
Sheriff Gray, accompanied by Simon
Lantzv, of Carroll township and Harry
Englehart and Jesse s BoIsinger, of this
place, escorted the eight prisoners sentenced
70 the penltentiarv during the present court
to that institution on Tuesday morning
They delivered them safely without anv
trouble.
Over in Ciearfed county the LIQUOR Ii
cense agony is Just over. There were one
hundred and fifty six applicants divided in
to ninety seven hotels, thirty -sixrestaurants
two bouling houses and one wholesale
house. OF this number seventy-sIx were
granted, fifty.six refused, two withdrawn
and two held under consideration.
Major John w Duncan. well known
iron manufacturer Of PhnadeInhIa, who spent
a great deal of his time in Altoona, died at
the Logan House, in Altoona or Tuesday
night from an apopIpctjc stroke The de-
ceased was aged so years and lis first wife
who died about twenty years ago, was a
daughter Of Dr.. Peter Shoenberger
Prof. Leech will he assisted in his Nor
ma School, by John S. Foley who spent last
year at Indiana Normal School. in company
with W. J Cramer, Of Chest Springs Mr..
Foley has spent the past winter in Califor-
mia teaching. He is an excellent teacher.
known throughout the county. Mr. Leech
is to be congratulated in securing him.
They will make a strong team.
The production of steel at the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works last week was greater
than that of any previous week since the
works were built, and beats the record of
the rail mills Of the United States. The
production Of inpots was O61 tons, and Of
rails 827. There are now six furnaces In
blast furnace G having been blown in last
Saturday. The last new furnace. to be
named &, will be blown in about MAY 1st.
--Mossrs. Michael McMorris Frank Brad
ley, James Bartram and William McGarvey,
all good citizens of GaUitzin. intend taking
pleasure trip to Ireland during the coming
summer. Mr. McMorrfs will remain for
about year on the old sod in the hope of
benefittinC his health which has been bad
for some time, while the balance of the party
if they escape arrest as suspects will return
in a couple of months
On last Sunday morning the Waterman
on the Pennsylvania railroad near Cone
maugh, found the dead body Of an infant
lying between the tracks. Coroner Evans
was notified and a furv summoned who
viewed the remains and then adjourned un-
til TO day. CFrtday) Dr. Evans saws the
remains have the appearance Of an infant
prematurely born. There appears to be no
clue to the mysterious remains and some are
inclined to believe it was thrown from a
passenger train.
A young man named Henry IddIings
a Centre county farmer, while boiling maple
sugar the other dav. was seized with an
epileptic fIt and fell haadIong into a cauIdron
Of the boiling Idut1. No one was near at
the time. and death must have came too
quickly for CRY tn escape the Iips Of the
Door victim. The fire burned on under the
cau'drOn. now the horrible casker Of hu-
man being its ghastIv contents hoiled beyond
snmhlance when discovered two hours after
the fatal tall by a passer-hv. The body
fell apart limb from limb, when an ATTEMPT
was made 70 lift it out Of the kattle.
last week ks Bedford INQUIRER saws
"Three distinct earthquake shocks we're
felt in Colpraiu township. in the npfghhor-
hood Of 3ainsbuTg, about 8 O'Clock On sun
day afternoon last. The shocks were violent
enough TO cause windows and doors to rattle
and were accompanied with dull, rumbling
sound Ike distant thunder The vibrations
were from east to west. A number OF peo-
pie in town declare they felt something Ike
n nnr r. E-1 5Ng T,-
have heard reports Of the same experience
in Cumberland Valley and at Mann's Choice.
It was probably caused by what our Mann's
Choice correspondent suggests-blastfng.
Joseph F. Maves, for twenty five years
Justice of the Peace at West Alexander,
Washington county, died there last Tuesday.
Before the marriage license law went into
effect in Pennsylvania, West Alexander
was a favorite place for runaway marriages,
and during the quarter OF century Of his
official career Squire Maves united 3 600
couples in wed lock. His father, Isaac
Mayes, and his grandfather, squire Alexan-
der, preceded him in the place and the three
married nearly 600 couples The late JUS
tice was % years old.
-PhiIadelphians, says the Record of that
city, largely interested in the South Penn
svlvania railroad stated that II, upon the
completion Of that line. it should be dis
covered that the Reading Company would
not give 1t an eastern outlet. another route
to Philadelphia or New York might be
fought. Wharton Barker and others inter I
ested in the projected Seaboard and West /
ern Line from a connection with the LehiRn ,
Valley Road at Mauch Chunk 10 Pittsburg 1
state that should the South Pennsylvania be /
abandoned they would stand ready to COM
plste their line.
"A correspondent of the Lewistown
Gazette, from MilrOy. sends the following
One OF the farmers IN this neck o. woods
while engaged in removing stump from
field one day last week came ubon what
greatly resemh'ed a ball OF tangled rope.
Upon exposure to the sun for short lime
he discovered that it was mass Of copper
head snakes twisted and interlacCd together
with the heads outward. When stirred up
they hissed in a manner horrible enough to
make ones hair stand on end. Calling as
sistance he succeeded in dispatching them
When laid out side by side and counted up
there we're foupd to be one hundred and
A sample street lamp was placed in
position on the corner Of Centre and High
streets, at James drug store. on Tuesday
last by a Philadeldhia Street Lamp Com
pany. An agent Of the company, on Tuesday